Tom Tit
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Anyone stayed here and can recommend it?
Some good current internet deals right now. I've never stayed there. Last mentioned on here 3 years ago: a short thread and a couple of one-liners, all basically just saying it (was) girl friendly. That's good, of course, but ... anything else...?
(Remember lads, old Tom Tit likes a hotel with a good pool, so he can pack his speedos and his sunscreen (deluding himself that he's gonna be sober at some time during his stay and not 24/7 boozing and chasing skirt) then unpack said items unused when he gets home.)
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Hopefully, BKK in last week of May. Depending on work. I'm guardedly optimistic. I'm also fucking desperate.
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Not sure what forum this should properly go in — sorry! shift it if it's misplaced, Mr Moderator — but something's rotten in the state of Tomtitland of late regarding my viewing of this goodly electronic parish.
It all starts well. Opens smoothly, purrs like a kitten as I read a few new posts and make a couple myself, then... it all goes pear shaped.
Usually after I've looked at half a dozen threads and make one or two posts myself, so I'll have been on about 30 minutes total, everything suddenly slows down to the extent that a page takes ten minutes to open. What's up with that? If I open a new browser, or exit the site then start again, it's the same slowdown. Other sites I'm simultaneously browsing open fast and good as gold, but this one's choked up. Same at home or at my office. Doesn't matter what tome of day it is. Phone or computer: same story. (Though, and here's the rub, if I'm on th computer and it's slowed down, if I then open this site on my phone it loads and reloads at normal quick speed.) Can't be my Wi-Fi, then? Must be a problem at the other end (as the bishop said to the actress).
Maybe I should count this as a blessing. If this didn't happen, I'd spend two hours a day on here instead of 30 minutes (fine in an ideal world, but I've got work shit to do...).
Anyone any ideas? It's a mystery to me: I know as much about computers as I know about celibacy in Bangkok. :P
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Positivity should only be exercised in moderation. Your glass is exceeding half-full. Reign it in, buddy.
Ha ha, my glass is NEVER half full, mate. I'm a fall-down drunk: my glass is either full or it's empty. :)
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I wanted to 'positive vote' (click to 'like' in the little green 'reputation' box bottom right) a post just now, but can't. I've liked two (maybe three at most) posts in the last 48 hours but when I try now I get an error message that says: You have reached your quota of positive votes for the day.
Any ideas?
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Not affecting me at all.
Or, if anything, indirectly, marginally increasing my enjoyment, perhaps: I prefer BKK when it's quieter, freer of tourists.
Last trip over, I got a whole row of 4 seats on the plane to myself too. That was good.
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Why take anti-biotics just in case? Take them only if you have something!!! Anti biotic resistance is taking off due to overprescription of antibiotics for "general purposes"...
That's very true. Only take antibiotics if you're displaying relevant symptoms. If you're healthy and take antibiotics such as Zithromax, you simply risk building up resistance (in which case once you genuinely get the clap it'll take longer to get rid of), damaging your liver and developing stomach/intestine problems. As far as I'm aware, based on what I've been told by a medic, antibiotics don't function to block contraction/onset of bacterial STDs: they cure rather than prevent? Condoms prevent.
Chlamydia is the most common asymptomatic NGU/STD. If you've been wicked with a a few tarts, wait a month and get a chlamydia test. If it's positive, THEN take your antibiotics. No shame in having chlamydia. Many (some say most) sexually active adults get it at one time or another.
I'm not a medical professional, but one of my best mates is a doctor (the medic I mentioned above, and he's also a gold card carrying monger), and I learned the above from him.
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I wouldn't mind having a non-sexual entertainment from time to time.
Easily done: get married.
(As long as arguing loudly about anything and everything and being told you're a useless c*nt 24/7 is your idea of entertainment.)
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Great Range Of Drinks To Wash Down The Pub Grub!
Tiger Pints Only 100฿ Every Friday (9am Till Closing)
Nice pair pf beers there. Even nicer pair of tits. I'd certainly sink my teeth into them. :P
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Anyone ever stayed here? Looks really good. Will be spending a few days there later this month with my lady from BKK. Wanted somewhere nice.
Any advice or info very gratefully received.
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Sink your teeth into this beauty!
Somewhat disappointed to find a photograph of a hamburger beneath that very promising invitation. Expected something a tad more gynaecological. :P
As you were. ;)
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BKK Dec 22 - 26
Chiang Mai Dec 26 - 29
BKK Dec 29 - Jan 5
Because I'm worth it. :P
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I haven't been to Hua Hin for a long time, over 5 years. Was there for a week. It's a lovely quiet spot, elegant and picturesque, but not much in the way of nightlife.
Like you on your last visit, Madtriker, I was with my bird, so I wasn't bothered, but if I'd been solo I'd have been sweating, and probably cutting my visit short. Yes, a few small beer bars, but slim pickings. A drought compared to the overflow you get in BKK or Pattaya.
I'm sure you'll find something. Have fun. Let us know how you get on! You never know: might be a pussy goldmine!
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I've traveled to Bkk a number of times and always take taxi from stand. Here are the worst things that have happened to me:
Driver makes me ask a number of times to put on meter. Have to politely stand your ground.
Driver won't lift my bag into trunk, I have to do it myself. That's a clear sign to me he's not expecting a tip. Because he's not getting one. (This has happened to me in the states with hotel car services as well. It's a bad start with hotel service personnel to not tip them though, if you expect good service at the hotel during your stay. And that's a dilemma in the states. Not likely to happen in BKK because the culture isn't as tip fueled).
Driver stops at gas station to get fuel while meter is running and then tries to keep change from fare without asking. My pet peeve. Tipped him anyway after he returned my change but not as much as I would've if he had. And I let him know as we both smiled at each other.
Ha ha, roger all those, happened to me.
Some taxi drivers also try their damnest to engage you in conversation ('First time Thailand?' 'Go Pattaya tomorrow?' 'Want Thai lady?'). Fishing for a tip, basically. Just tell them you're there on business and stick your headphones on.
Taxi from airport to hotel should be 300 baht max, including highway tolls (have small notes ready for those: 25 and 50 baht respectively, if I recall correctly?). Make sure you ask for the meter on. He might tell you it's 'broken'. He's lying. Make to get out of the cab, and it'll soon miraculously fix itself and he'll turn it on. I usually round whatever the taxi fare comes to to 400 baht (so he gets 100 baht tip, which is perhaps extravagant), and he'll leave you a happy men.
Around midnight, roads won't be busy.
No advantage at all to take the shuttle. Waste of money. 800 baht? (1200 for shuttle vs. 400 taxi.) You'll just about get a short time for that at Nana hotel car park after midnight. :D
Have fun.
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6 months isn't really that long, but if you're really going to do nothing but go to Nana/Cowboy and bring freelancers back to your place then go for it.
"Near" Nana/Cowboy is subjective though. I personally would never live in lower Sukhumvit. It's one of the stinkiest, dirtiest places in Bangkok. The only reason to go there is for the red light stuff really. Otherwise it's crap.
But Chit Lom is technically close to Nana/Cowboy. Thong Lor is technically close... Ekkamai or Ratchada might even be considered close depending on your definition of close. Living a BTS or MRT stop or two from Nana/Cowboy is awesome, but living right in the mix of there would be aweful IMO. There's entertainment all over BKK, and this is a MASSIVE city, so don't think that they'll be no entertainment outside of lower Suk.
This is excellent advice. I think, even if you're of Mongering for the Olympics status, you'd get sick of living on Lower Suk after probably 3 months max.
Be good to yourself and look for somewhere that won't be like walking into a dustbin when you step out into sunlight every morning.
Six months! You lucky bastard.
Enviously yours,
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There is a mcdonalds open till late around the corner of soi 4.
Accros the mcdonalds is a burgerking.
They're both open till late.
Has that McDonalds (and the gas station in front of it) not disappeared now? Looked like they were clearing the site for construction when I was in BKK last month.
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Really? I had a burger in there a couple of weeks back and I thought it was shit. Tough as old boots and full of gristle (cooked medium rare).
No hidden agenda here. I go there often (though normally just to drink, not to eat) and I like the place. It's a great pub, and the staff are friendly. Maybe I just got the chef on an off night?
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I stayed in Sukhumvit Soi 2 Solo hotel in November and will stay there again later this month. It is great. Very good deals on Expedia/Agoda etc. Staff extremely friendly. Girl friendly (I was there for a week, brought about 4 different birds back on different nights (one per night, so dunno about the 'not more than one bird' rule) and they didn't bat an eyelid, no joiner fee, took ID and called room after bird left to check all okay.
(Juge's photos above look exactly like my room. I booked Solo Hotel because I saw his photos. Wasn't disappointed. Thanks mate.)
Majority of clients seemed to be non-mongers, young couples of pairs of blokes (including some obvious poofters), but nobody tut-tutted (staff or other guests) when I rolled down for breakfast with an obvious tart on my arm.
It's quite a way down Soi 2 (free tuk-tuk upon request 24 hours a day to Sukhumvit though, and will pick you up anywhere on Suk and bring you home if you phone the hotel). Very quiet. Breakfast nothing special but okay. Room service quick and cheerful. Very clean room, strong shower, all good. Rooftop pool very small but a good area for sunbathing.
Only pennies more than the Nana hotel, but infinitely quieter, cleaner, and staff less rude, so a true gem and a real bargain. Which is why I'll never stay at Nana again, will always use Solo henceforth.
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Nana hotel is really rundown now... I was there on the last visit and won't be going back.
There is no polite way to put this but a large selection of the guests behaved like cunts.... Was not a nice atmosphere.
Hotel is well located and cheap but the rooms need an update. Bathrooms falling apart. I heard at least 2 other guests complain.
Shame I always had a soft spot for the hotel.
Fully agree. I've stayed there at least once a year since 1995, but of late Nana Hotel's gone too far down the pan, even for an unchoosy old salt like myself.
Last stayed there last year. Room was filthy, stained carpet, stank of mould, shit-colored water coming out of shower and basin taps. Staff were unfriendly (no wonder, given the way a lot of the residents were behaving), and, as the feller says above, some of the guests behaved like pigs.
Unless you're going to spend your visit pissed out of your brains 24/7, shagging any car-park freelancer with a pulse, staggering around the hotel lobby at 10am in flip-flops and a football shirt red-faced and loudly swearing your head off, and never venturing any farther from the hotel than Morning-Night or NEP (taxi to Soi Cowboy at a stretch) i.e. unless you want a hotel that'll let you openly behave like a drunken sex tourist (nothing wrong with that, of course, if that's your thing), then the Nana hotel is not for you.*
The pool is filthy, by the way. And the 'jacuzzi'? I'd rather sit in a sewage tank.
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* Disclaimer: that paragraph fairly accurately describes some of my own visits to Bangkok in the distant past, but I'm older now and can't be bothered with that shit 24/7.
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Park Plaza Hotel (Sukhumvit Soi 16): Any Good?
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Thanks for that SJ. Being a moron, I just provisionally (free cancellation, thank f*ck) booked at Centre Point Hotel Chidlom in th mistaken belief that it was the Centre Point Hotel on Soi 10 (yes, the Chidlom in the name should've bee a giveaway but, as I said, I'm a moron). The Chidlom CP sounds great and I got a very good price (about 2500 baht per night, deluxe room with breakfast), but it's a bit far away from the NEP/SC action for my liking. I can't remember why I abandoned ship on the Park Plaza idea, but your post has got me regretting it. I'll have another look at Centre Point Soi 10 and Park Plaza... Always got the Chidlom place now as a back up.
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